Words matter. These are the best Poignant Quotes from famous people such as Zane Grey, Nick Sagan, Logan Pearsall Smith, Eddie Vedder, Michelle Dean, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, ‘Gravity’ is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
It’s fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There’s something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something very poignant about the volume of human desire to be heard out there in the Wild West of podcasts.
I want music to move me, and I don’t think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It’s the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.
‘Sairat’ is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.
‘Callister’ is feature-length, and it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever been asked to be a part of. It’s poignant and moving and thrilling. If this was one movie, it would be an accomplishment, and they make six of them.
There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He’s funny, but he’s also poignant. He’s not there just to make people laugh; he’s there to make people wake up, too.
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons – the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.
I think it’s poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Everything about ‘Hugo’ to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
Iggy Pop is legendary – he is awesome – and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song ‘Cautious Man’ is my favourite song. It’s really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There’s nothing wrong with songs.
Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.
When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that’s touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad.
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
I love Stephen Fry. His tweets are witty, poignant, and intelligent.
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.
Christopher Hitchens’s autobiography, ‘Hitch 22’, is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history – or, for that matter, distant political history.
No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between… and sometimes in the same moment.
